The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has warned traders seeking to occupy the remaining workspaces in city markets to register and comply with the ongoing allocation process before the deadline.
In a public notice issued by the authority’s public and corporate affairs department, KCCA said Usafi market, Kamwokya market and Wandegeya market are the only markets that still have available workspaces as of March 1, 2026.
According to the notice, Usafi Market has the highest number of remaining spaces, with 247 lock ups still vacant and available for traders.
The authority said the available spaces at Usafi market include 30 lock ups designated for shoes, 210 for garments, four for kitchen and fridge businesses, and three for general merchandise.
At Kamwokya market, KCCA said there are 150 remaining workspaces. These include 18 spaces for restaurants, three lock ups for fish traders, five for chicken vendors, 10 for vegetable stalls, 100 for shoes and clothes, and 14 for produce traders.
Meanwhile, Wandegeya market has 166 available workspaces. These include four spaces for butcheries, eight for matooke vendors, 20 vegetable stalls, 12 lock ups for dry fish traders, 20 spaces for salons, and 10 for kitchen businesses.
The market also has 62 lock ups in the south wing and 30 in the north wing that remain unoccupied.
However, the notice did not include other markets such as Luzira market, Nakawa market and the Kampala City Abattoir.
The initiative is part of KCCA’s efforts to provide organised business premises for vendors who were recently evicted from the streets and are seeking to operate within Kampala’s public markets.
Authorities say the move is intended to promote orderly trade in the city’s redeveloped markets while giving vendors access to structured business facilities.
The development comes at a time when KCCA has intensified the eviction of street vendors in the city centre, a move aimed at restoring order and encouraging traders to operate from designated markets.
The authority is also expected to generate more revenue once vendors occupy formal business spaces within the redeveloped markets.
Efforts to reach the KCCA spokesperson for comment were unsuccessful by the time of publication.
However, questions remain about whether the 563 available spaces across the three markets will be enough to accommodate the large number of vendors who have been evicted from the streets last month.
